66-year-old human rights defender and former political prisoner, Sergei Mokhnatkin, died in Moscow on 28 May 2020. He had been gravely ill since late last year, seemingly following complications from the serious spinal injuries inflicted by prison staff during one of his politically-motivated sentences. The reprisals against Mokhnatkin effectively never ended, with it needing the intervention of human rights activists before a hospital would even agree to admit him.
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A picture shows Russian opposition activist Sergei Mokhnatkin.
